Hello and welcome to iGarden. Anyone who knows me will know that I am 'The Compulsive Gardener' - I love everything about gardening.
Allow me to share some of my enthusiasm and interests in gardening with a focus on the plants I know best and those that do especially well in my own Sydney garden.
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Recently we went away on an interstate trip for the first time in more than two years, to attend a family wedding. It was a delightful holiday. But I had forgotten how exciting it is to get home from such a journey and to do the 'tour' of the garden to see how it had got on during our absence. This is something I have always done, sometimes conducting the tour by torchlight if we arrive home at night. I like to peer at every garden bed in detail as I walk slowly round my garden, deep in thoug ... Read On »
See the full list of what's flowering in my garden this month.
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Happy New Year! January can be a hot month, when many gardeners go on holidays: make sure your garden will survive! Read More »
Harvest your vegetables regularly and keep the plants in good condition with water and fertiliser. If your lettuces have gone to seed, it is possible to plant a second crop - choose a different spot or grow the more compact varieties in a large trough. At this time of year they will do best in part-shade. Keep basil and other herbs nipped back to prevent flowering, which will debilitate the plants. I grow basil and mint in troughs that I cover with a wooden frame covered with fine mesh. This excludes the nasty flea beetle that can completely ruin the foliage of these two herbs.
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